Bench Strength: With 13 Days Until Election Day — Justice For All

Two weeks from today we will likely know who our next president will be. In the meantime, we continue our look at another aspect of our country’s founding principles—by presenting another installment from the series of the same name. In “Chapter 5: The Judiciary,” Founding Principles narrator and Thomas Brackett Reed Professor of Government Andrew Rudalevige tells us about the judicial branch.

After you learn about the creation of the Supreme Court, check out what students are learning in the first-year seminar The Supreme Court and Social Change, taught by Assistant Professor of Government Maron Sorenson.

Please bear with us while we retroactively post obituaries from back issues of Bowdoin Magazine. This process has currently skewed the chronology of our listings. We're working to fix the problem. In the meantime, please go to bowdoinobituaries.com and search by class year.